A Southport paedophile who collected a “vast” collection of animal and child porn was jailed for paying to have children abused by their own mothers.

Dangerous Peter Daly, 54, trawled the web for five years searching out the sickest images and videos of child abuse which he shared online through Skype chats with female perverts.

The dad-of-two was snared when police carrying out another investigation came across Paypal transfers he had made to women in Thailand to pay them for carrying out his horrific whims on their young children to order.

When police raided his home on Endsleigh Road, Crosby, in August last year and asked him if they would find illegal images, he replied: “I’ve got them. They’re on the computer next door. Yeah, every type. Animals, gay, everything.”

They also found 2,723 movies and pictures of child abuse including “the sadistic mistreatment and cruelty of children of extreme youth”.

Daly admitted on 15 occasions directing women in Thailand to carry out sex acts on their own daughters for £3 or £6 a time.

Daly, who moved out of the family home to an address on Knowlsey Road, Southport, after his arrest, told investigators: “I got the impression it was like a brothel. You could ask for whatever you wanted and there would always be someone there.”

He said that he had tried to stop at one point and closed all his accounts but then started again.

Daly pleaded guilty to 24 counts including making indecent images of children by downloading them between 2008 and 2013, distributing indecent images of children, possession of extreme pornography, possession of indecent images of children and inciting other to commit sexual offences.

Christopher McMaster, defending, said Daly, who was a manager at a soya bean factory, had begun to look at legal porn but by “very small steps” all of a sudden found himself in his present situation.

He added that he was “a successful, hard working, family man” who had not set out to commit to child sex crimes.

Judge Teague jailed Daly for eight years and added an extended license of five years, saying: “I have no doubt you are dangerous pederast.”

He added: “You actively encouraged women outside this country to carry out sex acts on their own children aged five or six. You were watching the women abuse their children live over the internet connection.

“Of all the people you chose to enlist in the commission of these acts with you, you chose their mothers. It is difficult to imagine a more shocking betrayal.

“You consorted with women who seemed to have no boundaries. I think any boundaries you ever had in the areas of sexual behaviour have been, over the years, completely dissolved.”